ARTISTS
Silence Calling From One Continent To Another
Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Silence calling from one continent to another, a group exhibition featuring artists whose works contain or consider corporeal forms in both direct and poetic manners.
The exhibition takes its title from a phrase included in William Kentridge’s large drawing Love Songs from the Last Century. A charcoal drawing of a Johannesburg landscape, it was made as the backdrop for a 360º film made and shown at the Centre for the Less Good Idea. Kentridge reworked the drawing for this exhibition. The text, ‘Silence calling from one continent to another’, is taken from Kentridge’s processional opera The Head & the Load, and refers to mutual incomprehension between Africa and Europe. The paradoxical nature of this phrase speaks to modes of communication, and the difficulty often encountered due to cultural differences, distance or geography.